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For many years we've made cars with shiny, painted
panels
and assumed they'll be used discretely, rather than
joining
them together.
Inspired by [Voice]'s annotation, I got to thinking about
the
benefits of bonding cars together.
Velcro™ was itself inspired by the hooks on the burrs
of
the
burdock plant.
So, putting the two together, you could reasonably add a
panel of hook material to the front bumper of your car
and
loop material to the back, to allow you to travel
comfortably in close convoys on the freeway; a poor
man's
version of the Mercedes Benz drive-by-wire systems that
have been under development for the last 25 years or so.
To exit the queue, simply decelerate gently and you'll pull
free with a massive tearing sound, not unlike a gigantic
fart, repeated as you then accelerate away from the
vehicle to your rear.
This may well require a major rethink of how we use our
motor vehicles.
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What was [voice]'s annotation? |
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on my "Get Me Outta Here" idea. |
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See, you can never touch the consciousness-stream in the same place twice. |
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//To exit the queue, simply decelerate//, thereby
converting the 2CV behind you into a 1CV. |
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If you're driving a 2CV then you're either French or an
idiot. Either way, it's your fault for refusing to get a
real car. Sorry. |
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//either French or an idiot// You seem to assume
that the two are mutually exclusive. |
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Not all idiots are French. |
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[MB] Yes, [UB] didn't say "French XOR an idiot" which would have implied mutual exclusivity. |
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The "either/or" tends to imply XOR... |
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I was assuming all Frenchmen who drive 2CVs were
idiots and that some idiots were not French. No
mutual exclusivity about it. |
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Let's pretend the 2CV was invented by someone
French, rather than its Italian designer, Flaminio
Bertoni, shall we? |
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There was never an XOR model, but the S model
got
the 4-speed gearbox, which engineers passed off
to
Boulanger as an overdrive, rather than a
concession
to the car's lack of power. |
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Ah yes, you're right - I read it without noticing the "either" hidden in there. As an aside, I quite like 2CVs - not to drive, but I just admire the fact that they exist, mostly because nothing about their design is the easy, obvious choice - the bodywork, suspension, engine, silly little windows, leaky roof, etc. Where I grew up there was a family down the road who had two cars - a massive, ancient Rolls Royce, and a Citroën 2CV. |
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Put velcro on your car chasing dog and there is a small chance he catch one ? |
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It's only '2CV' in British English, it's '2Resume' on the other side of the pond. |
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In a very oblique way the 2CV may have actually spurred progress in bombing techniques and/or technology. Citroen bought a load of aluminium welding kit, but then decided to make the 2CV's out of steel. Problem was, aluminium welding kit can make/fix fighter planes and bombers, so the Germans bombed the Citroen factory hoping to destroy the kit, then Bomber Command spent the rest of the war bombing the Citroen factory for the same reason. |
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No, it was because they were french. The aluminium welding story was just a pretext. |
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